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TIIE OMAITA DAILY BEE: - THURSDAY JANUARY 17,"T.m7.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
B'ate of Xebratka, Unuglae County. ss:
CirU- C. Ronewater. general manager
f The Bee ubHlitng company, being duly
worn, uvf that the actual number of full
and complete copies of The Dully. Morning.
Evening and ttunriay Pee rrlnted during the
"unm or, yccmiwr, H'M. was aa iouuw..
j 7 39,370
M,BM
ai.sio
31,710
I ai,7oo
31.590
1 , 31,880
I......... 82,080
....'..... 30,630
10...'....; . 81,750
11 39,150 -
11 33,050
II......... 31,080
14 S1.3M
II 33,170
It 31,700
It 1.T0
it 33,670
21 31,630
22.... 31,900
21 30,860
2 31,710
S. ........ 31,600
21 39,120
17 31,770
II ' 31,613
.9 31,890
It 30,300
II 31,810
II...
S0,00
Total 069,380
Less unsold and returned coplea.. 0,941
Nat total ,. .. .873,144
Daily average 31,391
CHARLES C. ROSEWATER,
Oeneral Manager.
Subaciibed In my presence and aworn to
before ma thla Hat day of December, 1906.
Seal.) t M. B.. IIUNQATE,
Notary Publ'o.
WHEN OUT OF TOWS,
akecrtbera leaving the city tem
porarily ehoald have Tbe Bee
malted to then. Addreaa will be
ehaaaed aa oftea aa requested.
Jack Frost Is doing more to wipe
out the Ice trust than all the legal pro
ceedings! could have accomplished.
Kingston gives Great Britain an op
portunity to show what it, has learned
by observation at Ban Francisco and
i Valparaiso. ,,
Kearney's steam whistles gave Nor
rls Brown a joyful hoot, .again empha
sizing the utility of a steam siren as a
social factor.'-
Ralsoull's desire tor' pardon Is hot
bo strong as to cause htm to restore
the money for which be sold his dear
friend. Ion Perdlcaris. .
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Doing sanely what Hearst' threat
ened to do Insanely, Governor Hughes
of New York convinces the people that
the right man was elected for office.
Spokane will no doubt learn that It
1 impossible to permanently render
geographical advantage of no effect In
the matter of transportatlftn rates.
The council will find tbe citizens al
most as unanimous as were Us mem
bers In regard to the quality of gas
being furilished foe consumption lo
cally.
Hallway tax cases at Washington
Monday will give Senator Brown a
chance to clinch the first nail driven
Into the lobbyist's coffin by the present
legislature.
Senator-elect Guggenheim has re
signed from all business associations,
but his future conduct will show
whether or not he had better have re
al Sued the office. ". - v
Now that the taxpayers are to be
compelled to make good the deficit In
the state treasury,' they may more ac
curately understand the gravity of the
offense which created it. , '.
A substitute for milk has been
found In the juice of the soy bean, a
Japanese vegetable. With this and
oleomargarine for butter the dairy
may become a memory.
Division of oplnloa as to method of
procedure Is evidence that French
bishops are affected by the .trouble
which Archbishop Ireland attributed
to the priesthood asd laity.
"
A ru'Si $. .Seniority" and .selec
tion" apparently" ' combined to give
Colonel Godfrey his star, army officers
might strive to keep them together
without injuring the service.
The most serious drawback to the
deepening Of the Mississippi river is
thaj St. Louis Is already talking of a
necessity for an appropriation for
"harbor defenses'! when ships can
come up the stream.
The most serious charge that can
be brought against Chief Donahue Is
thai he obeyed the orders Issued to
bln by the city's executive. As this
Is part of his duty as subordinate to
the mayor. It Is not at all likely that
his obedience will involve blm In any
very serious difficulty.
Saloon men who undertook to run
counter to the law have found very
suddenly that the Ciyic Federation is
not sleeping, and that the machinery
ot the law to support Its position can
make matters very interesting tor ths
local lid lifters. Regardless of any
local sentiment, the law Is very plain sought to set up aa, opposite author
ed no one man or combination of j Ity. It was also a "civil war," which
men caa set aside Its operations. - lis Indeed -the phrase bow comrionly
MIAT0H If ORRIS BROWS
It is now settled beyond a peradven
turo of doubt that Hon. Norrls .Brown
of, Kearney, will represent Nebraska In
the United States senate. after March
4 next as the successor to Senator Mil
lard. Mr. Brown has received his
commission at the hands ot the legis
lature, but by direct mandate ot the
people expressed In their vote of pref
erence at the polls.
This choice comes as near being aa
election by direct popular vote aa It
la possible to be until the federal con
stitution shall have first been amended
to make the sovereign people the elec
torate Instead of the legislature, as
now. As ' a ' consequence Senator
Brown will assume the duties of his
office freer from obligations to corpor
ate and; other special Interests than
any senator who has heretofore been
commissioned -.. by. this . state. He
should be absolutely untrammelled by
entangling alliances that would pre
vent him from voicing truly the sentl-'
ments-of the people as a whole or from
bending every effort to promote the
welfare of the state and nation irre
spective of selfish Influences. Going
Into the senate thus independent apd
unfettered. Senator Brown should
have every Incentive to stand up cour
ageously for right and justice and to
fight the battles of tbe people shoulder
to shoulder with their great leader In
the White House.
Jhe advent of . NorrH Brown i as
United States senator take) away from
Omaha the privilege of furnishing one
of the representatives of Nebraska in
the upper branch of congress for the
first time since the state was admitted
Into the union. The people of Omaha
naturally feet the loss keenly, but
they will look to the new senator, as
the;- have a right to do, to protect
their interests as the state's metropolis
and commercial center. They will not
hesitate to call on blm as succeeding
to the senatorBhip so long conceded to
this city to champion their rights bo
far as consonant with the material
prosperity of the whole state just as
earnestly and juft as energetically as
if he resided among us. Senator
Brown has not up to this time come
Into very close contact with Omaha
and its business activities, but we be
lieve that he will cultivate more Inti
mate relations and will disappoint
those who have questioned his friend
liness toward our city.
Senator Brown enters the national
arena almost at a single bound. It
will depend upon him whether he will
develop In his new position and meas
ure up to what a senator should be, or
be content to size with the low aver
age, which, unfortunately, with two or
three notable exceptions, has charac
terised most of Nebraska's representa
tives In the American House of Lords.
THE BROWKSVILLE CASK.
It was certain that the , representa
tives in. congress of those interests
Which were Tesolved to restrict positive-
legislation at this session to the
narrowest possible point would take
adv'antage of every excuse to. fritter
away time In ' the semblance of de
bate, but it was not so easy to fore
see what particular excuse they would
lay hold of.. It is, however, ciear
now that the Brownsville case was
taken np as a time consumer, and a
most Industrious use has thus been
made ot It In the senate.
A bona fide consideration of the
Investigation resolution required no
more than a day or two. but weeks
have now passed in a rambling and
desultory discussion covering a multi
tude of Irrelevant and collateral ques
tions. Nor Is there apparently any
limit under the rules upon the dila
tory use that can be made of the sub
ject, short of the consummation of the
purpose of tbe prime movers In the
"debate," most of them being well
known to be hostile to the adminls
tratlon generally and .to Its progres
sive program.. i , ..
The true Interpretation therefore of
the senate proceedings in the Browns
ville case Is not at all what appears
on the surface, but the settled pur
pose to defeat any Important hew leg
islation, particularly of the character.
which made the previous Besslon mem
orable because the obstructionists
were overpowered on the main point.
And the strong probability Is now
that this purpose .will be successful.
"THS CIVIL WAR."
Congress has done well not to per-
mit itself to be led Into an acrimon
ious a&d prolix controversy over the
designation of the war from 1861 to
1865 In the preamble of a ' pension
bill. Whether that struggle be re
ferred In that connection as "the civil
war," "the war of the rebellion" or
"the war between the states" js abso
lutely immaterial to Its purpose as a
service pension measure, and passion
ate dispute over phrases . could only
promote profitless strife.
The phrase, "war of the rebellion." j
having got accidentally Into the bill,
although It was Intended In drafting It
to use "civil war," it would have been
better , for southern senators to pass
It over, because it would have Indi
cated on their ' part the supplanting
of prejudice and sectional feeling by
magnanimity. But when they missed
the opportunity and showed sensitive
ness by raising the point , -to
words It was better not to compete
with them in Irritating hairsplitting,
"civil war" being the form now usu
ally employed In legislation anyhow.
Under . universal conceptions of
the national government now the
war was Incontestably a "rebellion,"
having been, like ' the revolution ot
'J 6, an organised resistance with force
of arma- tq lawful authority; which
employed by standard authorities on
both Sides. But mere historical and
controversial terminology can safely
bo left to take care of Itself, the vital
Issue of the great conflict being no
longer debated nor debatablo.
LltllSQ CP TVH RKFURit
Most significant Is the note that is
struck by all the governors In their
messages and the legislative proposals
that are foremost In nearly two score
states. With virtual unanimity, east
and west, north and south, they pro
nounce resolutely and Insistently for
a policy of constructive reform. What
la more Important la the identity ot
aim which so notably characterizes
the specific measures In which this
policy is embodied, tor in many cases
the agreed program in one state Is a
mere duplication of that In another
or in many others. Through all of
them runs the obvious purpose to se
cure honest elections with elimination
of-graft in state and municipal gov
ernment, a tighter grip on railroad
and public utility corporations with a
view to fairer charges and services,
and more equitable distribution of tax
burdens In short, a more enforclble
responsibility ot all under equal law.
If this were the result of mere
spasmodic or impulsive excitement,
there might be little to hope in the
way of substantial betterment, for
many popular movements have come
and gone without permanent achieve
ment, usually running to futility
through extremism or that multiplic
ity of schemes which sacrifices main
practical points. But the constructive
reforms that are being worked out
now in the state Jurisdictions are the
logical continuation and complement
of the memorable national movement
under the leadership of President
Roosevelt,, which culminated a -year
ago in a series of great progressive
measures and, concurrently with
them, In the vitallzation of executive
and Judicial power for essential na
tional and public ends They signally
demonstrate the compelling and sub
tainlng power pf a public sentiment as
resolute as It is Intelligent, demanding
that the laws of the states be brought
up abreast of those of the nation for
efficient service of the needs of the life
of the people.
The meaning of It all is that the
people In the mass have become con
sclpus of the great changes In Indus
trial and civic circumstances, of which
previously for decades special inter
ests, largely centered In corporations,
had taken selfish and immoral advan
tage, and thus informed of the main
defects of old law, methods and alti
tudes, will not now longer brook
delay in their due amendment. Since
the reform movement became doml
nant the hope of hostile Interests, first
having failed in counter manlpula
tlons,, has been In large part driven to
wait for reaction, tbe last ditch of de
feated enemies to progress. But the
progressive movement has gone on
with increasing strength, and the signs
accompanying the opening of so many
legislatures fresh from and under. pe
culiar covenant to the peopl6 show
that genuine constructive effort is now
in full swing.
A point the eminent members of the
city council seem to have lost sight of
in their wrangle over the gas com.
pany's desire to Increase Its plant is
that the commercial Interests ot the
city are directly Involved. To a very
large extent industries of Omaha de
pend on gas for lighting and fuel
while the domestic arrangements of
the city are also closely wrapped up
with the gas supply. At present the
consumption of gas Is very nearly up
to the dally output ot the plant as It
exists. An Increase in capacity both
for manufacturing and storing a sup
ply Is Imperative. The fact that the
city derives a very considerable benefit
from the sales of gas should also have
weight in determining, tbe Issue, of .the
present argument. , It Is not likely
that any member of the city council
desires to fctand merely aa an obstruc
tionist, but It Is very desirable- that
they should come soon to a conclusion
and no longer block the way for
much needed Improvement which the
gas company is not only willing, but is
eagerly anxious, to make.
Appropriations for the benefit of
Nebraska military posts are taking the
time-worn groove. While the neces-'
slty of -the provision- being made for
the support of these army posts Is ad
mitted and the sums were practically
agreed upon, members of the house
delegation ' have .considerately held
back that the senators might. have the
credit for "saving the interests.?
Annexation sentiment .grows, stead
ily as the days go by. Opposition to
the union ot the two' OmahAs has its
foundation In such obvious selfishness
that it Is losing Its force, and by the
time the matter is submitted for ap
proval of the people It Is not unlikely
that the sentiment will be nearly unan
imous. The two cities are ' one in
everything but name now.
The Colorado legislature is to In
vestigate the causes of recent bank
failures in Denver with a possible view
proving that they were not due to
"wild cat" mine Investments unless
those lnvestmenta were made in Ne
vada. Former Governor Mickey aays. it the
Lord w fll forgive blm for what he has
done, he will not again enter politics.
If Mr. Mickey will stick to this resolu
tion he will probably In time win the
forgiveness of his fellow men.
. A pool of railroads controlling more j Pl straw color WAtch turns gray anly
than 404.000 freight cars Is'iaJd tol""' ,at ,nIllfe' ruddy f'1"-""
' . ... i gives an additions! touch of youthfulneaa
have been formed at Chicago with the i M .... (b, ,.... ., Mr. Moody
(.object of. .using cars , oav fcsjt ol th
pooled lines indiscriminately. If this
does not permit managers to create
nd dissolve traffic 'congestion at will
jme other plan may be tried.
Tho proposed extension by the
Omaha Street Railway company will
bring Into use several extensive areas
that have hitherto been neglected on
account of inaccessibility. The steady
growth of the city Is gradually filling
up the huge garment cut for Omaha
many years ago.
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A Dark Florae Play.
Minneapolis Journal.
The whlnney and kick of Mr. Foraker
In the senate Indicates that the Ohloan la
doing- a little dark horse play.
. The Hammer la Actloa.
-Washington Poat.
At a recent' aesalon of the American
Aaeoclatlon for the Advancement of Sci
ence paper waa read on "The Significance
af Grasping- Antennae of the Male Har
pactlcold Copepcd." That'a an awful
name to call our captains of Industry.
Mixed Pllie for Kaeckera.
St. Louie Globe-Democrat,
finarlora at the pension system nay the
bill paised by the senate to make age
additionally a claim will Increase the cost
of pensions $15,000,000 a year. If they bear
In mind that the veterans are dying at the
rate of 100 a day they will feel happier.
I'pllft of lUewale Jockey.
Chicago Record-Herald.
William Alden Smith, who has been
elected to succeed Senator Alger of Michi
gan, began business aa a newsboy, and
Charles Curtis, who will go to the senate
from Kansas, was a Jockey In his yount?or
days. Evidently It is no longer necessary
for our .great men to have begun their
careers as farm hands.
Troubles of the Hleh.
Boston Transcript.
Poor Mrs. Sage! Her late husband by
leaving her all hla money prepared more
trouble for her than a woman of her years
should be forced to arry. Beggars, as
the story goea, haunt her night and day
seeking to enter her house by front door
or back door, or . even by the windows
If by such means they can gain her ear
and her sympathies. She can neither walk
nor drive without being mobbed by them
and the few yeara that are left to her
threaten to become a. nightmare. The ex
perience must be sufficiently unpleasant
to make her wish a good many times she
had not a dollar In the world.
Railroads Built Last Year.
Railroad Gazette.
Official returns from most of the rail.
road companies In the country, supple
mented by our own records and figures
furnished by the state railroad commis
sions, show that approximately 6,628 miles
of new railroad lines have been built In
the United Statea daring the calendar year
190. These figures Include fifty-seven miles
of new main track relocated, but do not
Include aeeond, third or fourth track, eld
Ing or electric lines. The Increase In the
total over last year la 1,240 miles, about
28 per cent. This large Increase reflects.
In part, the preliminary work carried out
last year, when active construction was
resumed, following the retrenchment policy
generally observed In' H04. It also shows
the new movement toward the Pacific
coast and the noteworthy prosperity of the
present year.- .'.,
fOMMOX SEXSK AXf THE LAW.
Ill yl-i
A Mlourl Jadae 'Ovale Techalcall-
tie m fta ri Knock.
anftjrrCltJ' 'Star. " 3i
"Overruled, overruled: let me have the
facts In this case. Dqp'J try to tell me the
dance hall ordinance Is not good. I'm going
to hold it good, whether it Is or not. It's
leveled at an evil; 'The'rttr council and
the mayor did a mighty good thing when
they passed It. Let, me have the facts In
the case." . ' I
If you were not told so you would never
guess It In the world that this statement
was made aa the Judgment of a court In
thla age of technicalities. Let Kansas City
take off Its hat to Judge Wofford, and' the
state of Missouri msjee the same obeisance,
and the nation, too, with Its federal judica
turea. Does any layman or Judge doubt
that this ruling was good law by the stand
ard that "the law Is common sense?"
And never let It be doubted that this la
the sort of construction of law that the
courta of this country must 'finally come
to. Maybe there will have, to be much
legislation to bring if about. Perhaps new
codes will have to be formulated and Jurists
relieved of restrictive statutes. . But the
change la irresistibly in progress and Judges
like Wofford are going to help Its progress.
"The council and mayor knew what they
were doing when they parsed that ordl
nance, and they were Influenced by good
motives, excellent' mbtlves," declared Judge
Wofford In further disregard of the technl
cal protestation of lawyer. Therein wrs
a consideration bo often overlooked-:that
the intent of a law and Its makers should
be the controlling guide to Ita Interpreta
tion. To brush away the "creative criti
cism" of qulbblera and to comprehend tha
meaning and purpose of a law as plain
mortals comprehend them, this Is Indeed
to unite tha Judiciary to the popular cur
rents of thought and feeling.
The case may be relatively unimportant,
but who shall say that In Its bearing on
broad principles of Jurisprudence the dic
tum of Judge Wofford may not mark an
era as the Judgments of mora renowned
Jurists have reflected honor on earner
epochs?
1 PERSONAL NOTES.
Mrs. Btuyvesant Fish, n the interests of
economy, advises women uiai u mey are
careful they can dress on S6.000 a year.
Stewart Edward White, the author, has
left his bungalow In California, where he
haa lived for the last two yeara, and has
Joined the authors' colony In New York.
Thorn aa A. Edison haa remembered his
native town ot Milan, Conn., by presenting
It with a set of apparatus for the physical
laboratory of the village high school aa a
New Tear gift. Tha Inventor made tha
apparatus hlnwlf.
Prof. Brander M Uthaws of Cclumt la un
Iverslty. haa received the decorations of
tha Legion of Honor from the French gov
ernment In recognition of his services to
literature in connection with ths atudy of
the French drama.
The late shah of Perala had his bed cham
ber overlaid with coatly Jewela, paintings
and brle-a-brao, but It la aaid that his mala
delight was a cheap print copy of
grotesque picture uaaa In advertunag
certain brand of English soap.
Charles F. Shaw. tf he bureau of eoil
of the United Statea Department of Agrl
culture, haa been appointed Instructor la
agronomy at tha Pennsylvania State col
lege. Mr. Shaw waa student assistant in
aot'.s at Cornell university, where ha waa
graduated in 1905. He la now with a soil
party In Texaa.
All tha Juatlces of the T'nited States
supreme court except William H. Moody,
the youngest member, are grajf-haired. Mr,
j Moody la a blonds and Ms hair Is of that
,nd other atewbu-s 4 the court is auiaing.
. , HOtXD ABOVT RKW YORK.,
Ripples oa the C'arreat af Llfa la the
Metropolis.
Official reports, and statistics of the part
year preeenl the great city In a variety
of Imposing figures.' In his annual report
Mayor McClellan shows the net . funded
debt of the city to be 474.3,ir.12. Of this
I73,71S,000 waa added In 1906 and lfr. The
temporary debt, revenue bonds Issued In
anticipation of taxes. Is $.v,nT. The
cltys' borrowing capacity $73,000,000. The
number of children on part time In schools.
says the mayor, haa Increased upward of
11,000 to 66,000 In im. The number of schools
In use during 190$ waa 610, and they housed
66s,130 scholars.
A fraction over one killing and one sui
cide for every day In the year was New
York's record of criminal violence In 190.
This red page does not Include deaths from
accidents, which raise the total to 1190.
Surface cars killed persons; elevated
trains, 14; tunnel trains, 17, and automo
biles, U.
In Manhattan last year 6.S90 deaths were
certified to the coroners' offices. This was
a little more than 7 per cent of the number
of deaths In New York City. A etrlklng
feature of the coroners' report la the num
ber of tunnel casualties. Sixty-eight men
were killed In the various underground
channels through which Manhattan seeks
new direct connections with Long Island
and New Jersey.
Here's New York City's record of mar
riages and births for 1906:
Marriages tK.are
Birth .. in.772
nunles married Hirh dv 1S2
Number babies born each day 36
Increase of marrlagns over 1906 6.700
Increase of births over 1906 6.0"0
Deaths during the year . 76,2o
Increase of deaths over 19C6 2.4!2
zxumDer or deaths each day 209
"Life and death both are strenuous In
New York," said an undertaker, quoted by
the Sun. "We get orders sometlmea that
shock us.
"Not long ago we' had a call from a
family who asked us to make a hurry up
Job for the reason that they had arranged
to sail for Europe two days later and they
didn't want to postpone the voyage.
"What would you think of a woman who
asked to have her husband burled as
quickly aa possible on the ground that a
few days before his death they had agreed
to a separation and that she would like to
put away the deceased before the news
papers heard of their martial troubles?
That la exactly what happened. '
Then there Is this case: An elderly
aunt, who had been an Invalid more than a
year, paased away. We were asked to
arrange for her funeral on the day of her
death, and when wa demurred unlesa there
was some Important reason we were In
formed by a nephew that they were anx-
loua to know what was In her will, as the
matrimonial chances of a niece depended
upon what she was to get.
Only yesterday a man came Into our
office and said that his mother-in-law had
Just died and that he would like to send
her body south as soon as possible because
his wife wanted to attend some sort of
function three days later.
In the good old days in some parts of
the country It used to be the custom for
friends of tha family In which a death oc
curred to alt up with the corpse. In a
case given to us a few months ago we
were asked to send a couple of genteel
appearing employei to the house to keep
the vigil. We did It, but I confess to you
It aeemed to me rather heartless."
The drivers of department store delivery
wagons gather up statistics now and then
that might be "highly valued by students
of sociology. They learn, for example.
how many families which live In small
apartments shut up thu house the llve'oe;
day because every member of the house
hold goes out to work.
"We found that out," said one driver,
"through the requests to- have- goods de
livered at office buildings. We' wondered
for a long time why so much stuff belong
ing to flat dwellers should be sent down
town. Finally it came out that there
would be nobody at home to receive the
goods If sent to the flat The woman mem
ber of the family took off a few minutes
extra at lunch time to do her shopping,
and Instead of carrying her purchases her
self she ordered them sent to her hus
band's office, so he could cart them home
at night
Henry McAleenan has a pawnshop, a
modest little one, on Sixth avenue, in a
building he owns. Tha site Is small, eigh
teen feet wide and fifty-two feet deep.
The man who owns the rest of the Sixth
avenue front wanted the pawnbroker's
little corner. He made several tempting
offers In vain. Finally he said: ,
"1 11 give you 1650.000 for that little plot."
"Not enough," said the modest pawn
broker. "Why, man., that la litl.t square foot!"
"I can't help it." aaid Mr. McAleenan.
"My business there cleaned me 1250.000 last
year, and I couldn't duplicate the site."
: There is a Harlem man who dlxllkea
children, but who la passionately fond of
cats. He Is the possessor of tabbies and
Thomases galore, and they represent every
type of whlners, from the itinerant "Hooli
gan" pussy to the aristocratic Angora.
One night he went home loaded to the hur
ricane deck with essence of foolishness
and fitted up a Christmas tree for his
felines. Besides all the usual Christmas
gewgaws he strung lines of sardines and
mice, that leaped and frolicked from the
strings attached to the evergreen. . After
the candlea had been lit a dozen cats were
turned loose to see what Banta Claus had
brought them. It took the cats about a
minute to And the mice. With bounds they
went after them, and for a time cats,
candles, mice, tree and flame made an ex
citing and spectacular scene In the houae.
Tha neighbors helped put out the Are, and
then the owner ot ths cats gave the patrol
wagon a run.
The cocaine habit is Increasing to an
alarming extent In New York. Hospital
records disclose a steady Increase In the
number of cocaine patients, and private
sanitariums near ths city harbor a larger
number of them than at any time afn
the use of tbe drug began. Insane asylums
are rapidly filling with men and women
whose minds have been wrecked by the
drug. There are certain drug stores In
the ' Tenderloin, the police say, where the
druggists will - actually take old clothing
and shoes, to say nothing of jewelry, in
return for a few grains of the powder so
dear to the heart of the victim.
A gang of professional burglars, equipped
with chloroform and armed with pistols,
la carrying terror Into tha fashionable
colonics on the nearby south shore of
Long Island. They are operating with all
of the, fine tools known to the cracksman's
art, and art having "easy picking" among
the country homes of rich New Yorkers.
Nothing Is too large for the gang to get
away with brass beds, silverware, chests.
rugs, ' lurniture, ciumiug aiuiu.i every
thing but the landscape.
The New York City building department
reports a falling off from 1 of fully
S0,0uu.0uO la new construction thereabouts.
The year etartcd off with plans maturing
for a far heavier Investment In new build
ings at the metropolis than the previous
year had seen, but the appearance of per
sistent stringency in the money market
compelled a decided contraction lit opera,
tlona. BUll It t noted that nn ' than
fifteen skyscraper are now In coarse of
construction la the downtuaa district of
XUnhattaa.
Lithia
Strong Testimony from the University of
Virginia.
- IN URIC ACID DIATHESIS. GOUT RHEUMATISM.
LITHAEMIA nd the like. ITS ACTION IS
PROMPT AND LASTING,
Ceo. Don. Johnston. M.D., LL.D., Pro. Crnfcohgy nd
ali , c r.,,,..,- of Virginia. Ex-Fret. Sontkern Surgical
Abdominal Surgery nivrruly of ' Medital Sonety and Jg,o
T&ifwrf -ff i were asked what mineral vf.ter
Memorial Hospital, huhmona, va.. i .
ha. the widest range of w ulsm ftjFFALO LITlflAwftTER
I would uuhesitstingly answer "T,,... . . .... .
In Uric Add DlathesU, uoui, k""""' ' i"'art of
r-nefiri.i effects are prompt and laatlng. . . . . Almost any case oi
beneficial effects are prompt
PvelltU and Cvstltla will be alleviated
bid evidence of the undoubted Ulsiniesratins, - - "T""J
JowerVof this water In Renal Calculus, and have known ita long conUnuel
uie to permanently break up the gravel-forming habit- .
"IT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS AN ARTICLE Of MATERIA MEDICA."
i ......
James L. Cabell. M.D., A.M., LL. ByJ" 'i
ery and Surgery in the Medical Department m ,n i""""-' '
WYi'iat" 'Burnu.o iJTJiiA Water 'sUEiS!
21i the2ic resource. U should be recognid by the profeasio.
tpeutic i
aa aa article of Materia Medica."
"NOTHING TO COMPARE WITH IT IN PREVENTING URIC ACID
DEPOSITS IN THE BODY." ' V
Dr. P. B. Darrlnger, Chairman of Faculty and Professor of Physi
logy. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.; "After twenty years'
practice I have' no hefitancy in statin that for prompt ".u'U I have
tocompVrehwTth BUFFALO LlTIflA Y&TER IiU in the by.
"I KNOW Or NO REMEDY COMPARABLE TO IT."
Wm. B. TowleS, M. D.. late Prof, Anatomy and Materia
Medica, University of Va.: "In Uric Acid DlathesU. Oout, Rheumatism,
Rheumatic flout. Renal Calculi and Stone In the Bladder, I know of no
pTrSuT; DUIFAL0 LlTJilA ViffTER NPonlf
Voluminous medical testimony sent on request. For sale by the general
drug and mineral water trade.
PROPRIETOR. BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINCS, VA.
TATE PRESS COMMENT.
Pails City Journal: Governor Mickey went
out In a bias of well, hardly glory, but it
waa a blase all right.
Tekamah Herald: The state of Nebraska
can now breathe easier. Mickey Is down
and out and Nebraska has now a real gov
ernorone who will not rattle around In the
office like a rat tall In a quart Jug.
St. Paul Republican: If the papers which
are celebrating Governor Mickey's retire
ment from office with a whirlwind of criti
cism had Joined the Republican two years
ago In opposing hla renumtnatlon the things
of which they now complain might not
have happened.
Hastings Tribune: News cornea all the
way from Washington to the effect that
Senator Millard will not be a candidate
for re-election. It seems to have taken the
distinguished senator more than a day or
two to become aware of the fact that the
people of Nebraska have long since re
quested him to retire to the extreme rear
and be seated.
Ord Quia: Immediately after pardoning
a murderess several times convicted of the
murder of her sleeping husband, .Governor
Mickey went to the legislative halls and
delivered a message. ort the losses of the
state by reason of technicalities. His mes
sage may be all right but It ..would sound
better from a governor who . had not out
raged Justice as ha had done.
Grand Island -Independent:" tn certain clr
clea of Omaha there Is still an occasional
lament that, for once, the metropolla has
not a United States senator, and an oc
casional evidence of fear that It will al-
waya be thus. But It won't. Let the big
sister on. the Missouri only be fair with
the smaller cities of the state, aa most of
her best men are showing a wise and evi
dently sincere disposition to be, and It will
find only a generous feeling for It out over
the state.
Clarkson Herald: M. P. Harrington Is a
good pleader of any caae, no matter how
unworthy, and It Is truly a bad cane that
he can not make presentable by the use of
his ready wit and smooth oratory, but we
believe that even a Harrington cannot eon
vert the sober, hard-headed cltlxen of Ne
braska to the government ownership erase.
For years Mr. Harrington, and others as
sociated with him in the organisation of
a government ownership league, have
wanted railroad legislation, and now, when
the chances of securing It are brighter
than ever before, they give up the fight and
go rainbow-chasing".
Bchuyler Free Lance: The Nebraska Gov
ernment Ownership leage waa organised In
Omaha a short time ago and It was officered
with good ones. M. F. Harrington, a pop
ulist and an attorney of O'Neill, la preal
dent, and he Is an able and clean man;
Harry Erome, a republican and leading at
torney of Omaha, a delegate to the last re
publican national convention. Is vice presi
dent; Edgar Howard, a democrat and an
editor of Columbus, is secretary, and he is
an able man. But the report of the meeting
howed that a bunch of populists was In at
tendance who are fake reformers and who
disgraced their own party when in power
and brought the name Into disrepute in Ne
braska. That outllt took a prominent part
in the proceedings and will be In the move
ment to ttt discredit. The league will not
flourish with such a bunch In it and the
people of Nebraaka will view H with sus
picion. Bancroft Blade: Is there not a acrew
loose somewhere? When, after a fair and
Impartial by a Jury of upright cltlsens, a
person Is found guilty of a most heinous
crime a homicide heartrending in its
character, and' the penalty inflicted by an
able Judge a punishment of life in - the
penitentiary and then, after but two years
of service of such sentence, without any
additional evidence but tha pleas of a few
friends, the governor of a state will take It
upon himself to say tha judge. Jury and all
concerned were wrong, and this In the face
of the fact that 96 per oent. of the publlo
where the crime was committed say the
contrary. We refer to the Llllle case and
Mickey's pardon, w hen we see such
things, can we wonder much when mobi
A FTER pneumonia the convalescent
r needs nourishing food to build up
the disease-racked body. But err eat
care must be exercised so as not to over
tax the feeble digestion. .
Scott Emulsion has cod liver
oil to make blood and healthy flesh, and
hypophosphites to strengthen nerves..
' It is pre-digested.
The best food in the world for a
- convalescent.
A AU-DSUCCUTSi SOa. AKDflio.'
Water
by it. ana many r. i n.
do now and then take the law Into their
own hands and mete out punishment. Give
us men for great and responsible positions
that have at least a little of the Roosevelt
Justice.
Tekamah Herald: For municipal taxes we
believe that all railroad property within
every town and city In the state should
assessed for town and City purposes Jus
the same as any other species of property
because ' no property Interests within the
corporate limits receives greater benefit
from fire and po"ce protection and from all
kinds of Improvements In the way of lights,
sidewalks, improved streets, etc., than does
the railroads. It protects their property,
facilitates their business and enhances the
value of their Investments. Then why
should they not pay the same proportion of
taxea on the dollar valuation as any other
property In a town or cltyT ,
FLASHES OF FI JI.
"Young Mrs. Oldrox seemed to be In
rather a pensive mood today.'?
I don't wonder. The doctor , says her
husband's daye are numbered.
"Really? Ah! I suppose she was think
ing how soon he would leave her."
'Klther that or 'how much.' Phlladul
phla Press. , ..
TJoea a merger tend to stifle competi
tion?" No. sir." .
"How do you explain that?
r tends to kill it quick, and not by any
old-faehioned process." y -.n -.
Naturally, at this point, his lawyers gave
him a new cue. Philadelphia Ledger.
- - -
"What will you do when you have dia-'
covered the way to the north pole?"
"The next step," answered the explorer,
"will be to turn around and discover the
way back home." Washington Star.
Mercury took Vulcan aside confidentially.
"Tell me," he whispered with a Sher
lock Holmes glance around, "are Jupiter's
thunderbolts the real thing?"
"Not a bit of it," sneered Vulcan. Don t
ydu know he forged them?" Baltimore
American. . , ,
"Do you know that, champagne poured
Into a dump glass will lose its sparkle at
ohce?" ..
"It won't If I can reach it first." Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
"My wife Is a woman who can practice
gret self-restraint."
"Yes. She came over to see our new bahv
the other day, and didn't say 'Ain't he
cunning?' "Chicago Record-Herald.
"Is that woman's book a success?"
"I'm afaird not." answered Mlsa Cayenne.
"I haven't seen anybody who has founl
anything shocking in It." Washington Star.
"That painting la worth WO. 000."
-vvnat, that little tnlngT '
"Yes."
"Well, If ever T ret $).fo I'll do my own
painting." Philadelphia Ledger. .
"Ton don't keep any money in banks '"
said the passenger with the skull cap. "Per
haps you are like some other persons I
know, and keep your money tied up In a
yarn sock."
"You've guessed It nearly right." re
sponded the passenger with the bulging
forehead. "All the money I have Is tied
up In a woolen mill." Chicago Tribune.
OX THE ICE.
Chicago News.
I clamped the skates upon my feet,
I stepped upon the Ice.
I smiled to hear my friends repeat
Their quite well-meant advloe.
I skated when I was a boy;
I skated quit a lot.
The paatlme I could stlU enjoy,
I knew I'd not forget.
I glided out a yard or so.
My stroke waa pretty fair.
Vkhnn, Just aa I began to go.
My heels flew In the air.
I aaw old Saturn and his rings.
And Venus, shining bright:
A comet and some other things
Burst then upon my sight.
Orion snd the Milky Wsy,
Mercury and Mars
I saw, though it was bright noonday,
A perfect blase of stars,
They showed me later where I fell
They said It waa the place;
I know It wasn't, very well,
Because. I'd left no traoe. ,-.
' . -.1
I knew that thla was Just a Joke'
Rome foolish monkey trick. -
Tbe Ice they showed me wasn't broke.
Though scarce twelve inches thick.
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